Matthew 11:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t mourn!

Cross References

Isaiah 30:29

Your singing will be like that on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the  Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Matthew 9:15

Jesus said to them, ‘Can the wedding guests   be sad while the groom is with them? The time   will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt, Virgin Israel. You will take up your tambourines again and go out in joyful dancing.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came to the leader’s house, he saw the flute players and a crowd lamenting loudly.

1 Kings 1:40

All the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy  that the earth split open from the sound.

Luke 15:25

‘Now his elder son was in the field; as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

Genesis 50:10

When they reached the threshing-floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.

Matthew 11:16

‘To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon! ”

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other: We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t weep!

Luke 8:52

Everyone was crying  and mourning for her.  But he said, ‘Stop crying, because she is not dead but asleep.’

Luke 23:27

A large crowd of people followed him, including women who were mourning and lamenting him.